Metallica - The Unforgiven II

Wagner gradually and consistently went to the substantiation of his opera reform. According to A.F. Losev, “if we stop at the first literary critical period of creativity (1833–1838), his most youthful judgments about music, then already in the first article written by Wagner at the age of twenty-one years, namely, the German Opera “(1834), the thesis is centralized for Wagner’s entire work and for its aesthetics. In this article, he says that only the one who writes "not in Italian, not in French, and also not in German" will become the master of the opera. Already here the point of view of aesthetic universalism was expressed, with which Wagner never parted, no matter what one-sidedness he fell into due to the circumstances of the time. As for the second period of Wagner's literary critical work,which others call Parisian (1839–1842), here we would note the treatise “Pilgrimage to Beethoven” (1840), where Wagner announces Beethoven with his Ninth Symphony as the forerunner of his musical drama and already sketches what will remain forever in his own musical drama. "